Baltimore County, MD NextUp: Baltimore County, 3 Aug 2016

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From YouTube: How to Create 10,000 jobs

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Tradepoint Atlantic is rapidly living up to its potential as the most important jobs generator in the Mid-Atlantic. Here’s how.

Learn more about Tracepoint Atlantic: http://www.tradepointatlantic.com/

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So the real challenge for us is: how do we recreate sparrows point as the Jobcentre not only of the county, but the entire region? This great opportunity we're trying to recreate its barest point will come help communities just like.

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This we anticipated, we can help change the trade of global goods. At least 40% of everything that comes through our facility will be connected to the international trade, but just imagine this in a month. Well, this is gonna be filled with thousands of cars. People are going to be working out of that shop over there preparing them to go on truck to be sold in the United States. So.

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They're coming right out of your port.

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Coming right out of the port, so the other side of it is, is helping to actually bring the jobs back and doing the incentives for employers talk about what we're doing here in the county to do that from incentives. One.

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Is the Chesapeake Enterprise Zone, which basically offers a host of tax credits that businesses can take advantage for both their businesses and and their employee count? We.

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Couple that with the Foreign Trade Zone, we've got a very competitive product here. Well, we.

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Want to be able to train people in areas where the jobs are today, so they graduate not just with a diploma in their hand, but with a paycheck in their hand. We've.

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Got rail we've got water, we've got land, we've got a water utility that treats 216 million gallons a day in here. We're gonna put about 80 million dollars over the next decade into developing and strengthening the piers we've allocated 48 million dollars in a special trust that can only be used for the environmental cleanup. So we get rid of the effects of that 125 years of steelmaking. You are at the signing the signing ceremony for our first new customer and it was FedEx yeah.

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They came here because of the availability to have 50 acres of land right next to 695, and it's.

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Really great in a neighborhood like this, where we've got good middle-skill jobs that are available, will that pay a decent wage and have great benefits, and this is what we're trying to do- is creating that next generation of job opportunity at Sparrows, Point and so far, it really is looking optimistic.